LSC Updates
"The latest news from the Legal Services Corporation and the national civil legal aid community."
Author: "The Legal Services Corporation was established by Congress in 1974 to promote equal access to justice in our nation and to provide high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income persons. It currently funds 137 independent programs providing high-quality civil legal aid to the poor in every city, county, state, and territory in the country."
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Recent Posts from LSC Updates
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House Subcommittee Approves $50 Million Increase for LSC
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies approved a $440 million, Fiscal Year 2010 budget for the Legal Services Corporation today.
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LSC Hosts Fourth National Foreclosure Conference Call
On May 28, the Legal Services Corporation hosted the fourth in its series of conference calls with legal services, national consumer and poverty law organizations to discuss initiatives aimed at addressing the ongoing nationwide foreclosure…
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Delaware IOLTA Funding Drying Up
The Delaware Bar Foundation is bracing itself for a crippling blow to revenue for its Interest on Lawyers' Trust Account program.
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West Va. Governor Won't Cut Legal Aid Funding
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has allayed concerns that his proposed budget for fiscal year 2010 would cut $250,000 in funding for civil legal services to victims of domestic violence.
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Legal Aid Programs Featured in Article on Illegal Garnishments
The Georgia Legal Services Program and the Montana Legal Services Association were featured in a May 30 Wall Street Journal article on the issue of illegal income garnishments by debt collectors and banks.
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Puerto Rico Director Comments on Sotomayor Nomination
Charles S. Hey-Maestre, executive director of Puerto Rico Legal Services, was quoted in a May 27 Washington Post article concerning the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Virginia Legal Aid Lawyer Honored by State Bar
Freddie L. Goode, senior managing attorney at Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, has been selected for the 2009 Legal Aid Award by the Virginia State Bar's Access to Legal Services Committee.
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Shriver Center to Host Foreclosure Prevention Webinar
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is hosting a free webinar on June 23 entitled, "Fighting Foreclosure through Legal Aid-Community Organization Partnerships."
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Who Says Lawyers Have No Sense of Humor?
Larry Wood of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago has scored a record-breaking hat-trick by winning the New Yorker Magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for a third time.
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Success Story from North Mississippi Rural Legal Services
Food Stamps Saved for Diabetic Woman